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In the US, there's a good chance you haven't even left your state either (startrek.website)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[+] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)
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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In the US, 100 years is a long time.

    In England, 100 miles is a long distance.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Here in Australia, during the 80's, 90's before widespread internet. There would be several European's who needed rescuing each year as they decided to try and walk between major cities, because it looks close on a map.

    I remember one German guy who needed rescuing while trying to walk from Sydney to Adelaide...that's 1200km away...in a straight line.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Lol, that's great.

    I've also heard of Europeans planning vacations in the US, expecting to see New York, Florida, Texas, LA, etc. without realizing how much travel that is.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    I met a foreign exchange student in Australia. I asked what they were planning to do for their break.

    They'd recently taken up surfing, and couldn't decide if they wanted to surf the east, west, north, or south coast. So they had decided they would stay in Alice Springs, basically in the middle of all of them, and do day trips to each one.

    I didn't have the heart to tell them that to get to the nearest ocean from there takes about two solid days of driving. Add another day to get to a beach with decent surf.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Found out the same between Tokyo and Okinawa. It's like flying from Washington DC to Miami. "Just take a train," is 32 hours, plus time on a ferry.

    Not a really a day trip, even though it "seems like Japan is a small country."

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Canada has a highway that goes between the most easterly and westerly points of the country. If you drove from end to end, stopping only for gas and drive through meals, it would take you about a week.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That guy just have been a huge idiot, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people know how far away New York and Los Angeles are from each other.

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